Mario’s Voice Actor Debunks ‘Weird Online Narrative’ About Nintendo Directs

Kevin Afghani became the new voice of Mario, Luigi, and Wario in 2023 with the game Super Mario Bros. Wonder on Nintendo Switch. He took over from Charles Martinet, the well-known voice actor who had played the characters for many years. Despite what some people online believe, Afghani recently confirmed he didn’t begin working with Nintendo until 2023 and has never narrated the Nintendo Direct videos.







![The study demonstrates that a non-invertible fusion gate operates not as a continuous transformation-such as movement along a Virasoro coadjoint orbit-but as a discrete shift between conformal families characterized by distinct conformal weights [latex]h_a, h_b, h_c[/latex], effectively manifesting in an AdS3/CFT correspondence as an instantaneous insertion of a defect [latex]D_b[/latex] that abruptly alters boundary stress-tensor data and delineates regions governed by differing highest-weight representations.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.09534v1/images/fig_cartoon_defectshock_AdS3.png)
